Here’s a quick video roundup of my impressions of this year’s BETT. Every year I interview one or two people who offer a free service to grass roots teachers. This year, more than ever, I think BETT has become an ‘at scale’ proposition – more for senior managers; business to business; international and global firms; senior managers. The ordinary class teacher would seem to be being left behind. If you were there and have a different view, please add a comment below.

This is one of a couple of posts I’ll be doing about BETT 2018. This year I spent some time walking up and down the aisles of BETT and my general overview will be available next week. One company intrigued me as it was a social enterprise homework and revision site. It had a reference to a RCT in its info about the platform. It is also free. I’ll let you listen to the Scientific officer talk about what they do and then pop along to www.senecalearning.com to see for yourself.

Multimedia Resources by Teacher Communities Here is a modest proposal I’m making to DFE and the Chartered College of Teaching. If you don’t want to look at the video there’s a timed transcript here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/li6lhhehgbj9lra/A%20Modest%20Proposal%20-%20Transcript.pdf?dl=0 If you want to see the highlights of the talk then read the TimeStamped comments under the video on YouTube. This is an example of what is possible with multimedia… Twitter discussion here:

Archived; click post to view.Excerpt: Everyone seems to be writing a blog on different aspects of advice for new teachers. Here’s some for a teacher starting on Twitter for the first time at the beginning of term. 1) Actively time your use of Twitter – use https://tomato-timer.com/ – be disciplined 2) Learn to use Twitter’s Advanced Search – https://twitter.com/search-advanced?lang=en – put in keywords at first; https://twitter.com/search-advanced?lang=en 3) Find out the best hashtag # chats where teachers are sharing resources and/or discussing information relevant to your key stage 3) Put people into lists you have created – compile a list of blogs that are useful to your professional…

Archived; click post to view.Excerpt: BUILDING A STUDIO Over the last few months and years I’ve been testing and building a small TV studio to be able to do live and recorded broadcasts from my flat (or anywhere else for that matter!). I did have some success with the first iteration a few years back, but since then, personal family matters have kept me from taking things further. However, in the past few months I’ve built on that success and have been researching and testing how to push out content quickly and easily to people’s phones. I’ve been researching MOJO (MObile JOurnalism) kit and workflows and…